Washington. 1904. Titlepage plus thirty-seven maps. Folio. Original cloth, gilt title on front cover. Very good. This atlas contains maps detailing the British case in the arbitration with the United States over the Alaskan boundary. Many of the maps are earlier historically important works by Vancouver, Bouchette, Arrowsmith, Langsdorff, etc.... More

San Francisco. 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract, for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and... More

San Francisco. 1890. 63pp. Illus. Tables. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor chipping and a couple of tiny repaired tears to wrappers. Very good. Scarce early promotional from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, after the first of 1887, discussing topography, industry, agriculture, with diagrams of steamships available for passage, namely deck plans... More

Madison, Wi. 1885. 16pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Very fine. Advice for the emigrant and traveller to Alaska: how to get there and what to expect; plus the Organic Act of the Territory, approved in 1884. Cowles was the commissioner for Alaska at the World's Cotton Exposition in New Orleans... More

Washington: United States Geological Survey, 1898. [2],44pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers, detached. Map with four neat closed tears. Text bright and clean. Very good. Report issued by the United States Geological Survey for the use of prospectors and miners, including descriptions of routes to the Klondike and... More

[San Francisco]: San Francisco Examiner, 1898. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Front page with a chromolithographed illustration of a miner dressed in a heavy coat. Lightly tanned. Near fine. Scarce sheet music, published at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska, illustrated with a striking chromolithographic front... More

Chicago. 1903. 302pp. Portrait. Illus. Three quarter calf and marbled boards. Hinges worn and weak. Internally very good. Allen spent years hunting and travelling in Montana, Idaho and the Dakotas in the 1880s and '90s. He tangled with some Indians and ran into some bad types such as Calamity Jane... More

New York. [ 1815]. 166pp., including in-text illustrations, lacking leaf with pp.95-96. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Boards soiled, rubbed, and scuffed; worn around the edges. Text tanned and foxed. Lacking the leaf with pages 95-96, which was apparently never bound into this copy, else good. An expanded... More

Victoria. 1872. [4],112,[2],xlii pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and chipping, short tear to front wrapper, top corner bumped. Internally clean. Good. A rare appraisal of British Columbia from an important officer of the Hudson's Bay Company. "This is a straightforward and useful account of British Columbia as it... More

[Polk County, Or.]. Oct. 9, 1847. [1]p. on single letter sheet, 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, docketed on verso. Tear along lower left edge, affecting two words. Old, light fold lines. Very good. An interesting letter from an important western pioneer, attempting to wrap up affairs back home. Oregon... More

[Washington. 1852]. 59pp. plus folding map. Dbd. Closed tear, measuring approximately 3 3/4 inches, at map near gutter, not affecting image or text. Light offsetting in map. Very good. Surveyed by Joshua Barney in 1850 and 1851, the proposed route runs down the Mississippi, along the Arkansas, and follows the... More

London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp., plus *471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole..... More

Palo Alto. Lewis Osborne, 1966. 86,[1]pp. Original gilt cloth in plain dust jacket, with facsimile newspaper, a very good copy. Nicely produced reprint edition of Major C. Bolin's narrative. Bolin was hanged for murder in front of about 5000 people; this was his last ditch effort to defend himself and... More

Montreal. 1893. 205pp. Original printed tan wrappers. Front cover detached, rear cover lacking. Cover and spine chipped and worn. Presentation inscription from the author on titlepage. Minor toning to text. Good. The author describes his trip from Montreal to the Pacific, focusing particularly on the Prairie Provinces. There was another... More